Morton & Hayes

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Morton & Hayes
Genre	Comedy, Mockumentary
Created by	Phil Mishkin Rob Reiner
Directed by	Michael McKean Christopher Guest
Presented by	Rob Reiner
Starring	Kevin Pollack Bob Amaral
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	30 min.
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	July 24, 1991 – August 28, 1991
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Morton & Hayes was a short-lived comedy television series, shown Wednesday nights at 8:30 on CBS. Only six episodes were shown, from July 24 to August 28, 1991.

This series was centered around the "rediscovered" work of a fictitious comedy duo.

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Each 30-minute episode was presented in the style of a documentary, in which host Rob Reiner introduced another long-lost comedy film short starring Chick Morton (Kevin Pollak) and Eddie Hayes (Bob Amaral).

Each black-and-white Morton & Hayes short was played, not as a parody of old-time comedy, but a tribute to it. The films were made to look the way they would have if they'd been authentic, and the comedy was in the style of Abbott and Costello, with lean Morton in the "Abbott" role and plump Hayes as his "Costello."

After each film, Reiner would introduce and interview one or more of the actors from the picture (made-up to look decades older, of course). At the end of the last episode, the "now-elderly" Morton and Hayes were reunited on the show, after years of estrangement.